The Place of the Science Workroom in the Elementary School Program.
This article presents information on the role of science workroom in the elementary school program. The science lecture room and laboratory have become firmly established as fundamental equipment for both the college and the high school in the last century. The article discusses opportunities that s...
| Published in: | Science Education Vol. 14; no. 4; pp. 582 - 589 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May1930
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| Summary: | This article presents information on the role of science workroom in the elementary school program. The science lecture room and laboratory have become firmly established as fundamental equipment for both the college and the high school in the last century. The article discusses opportunities that should be kept in mind in equipping the science workroom. The first opportunity is that of assisting in the teaching of the elements of learning set forth in the elementary science course of study. This might be called the required or core content. The second opportunity is that of encouragement of individual and group interest. The workroom should be equipped in such a way as to assist in giving children such instruction as comes from a well-balanced experience with science. The author suggests three chief types of instruction, which should be evaluated in terms of the elementary school program in its relation to the science workroom. One of them is the departmentalized organization of instruction. One great advantage of the departmentalized plan is that the specialist having but one field to teach would have a better opportunity to become expert in it than would the class-room teacher who has many fields of endeavor. |
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